Everytime I’ve checked the subreddit, other places of discussion like chapotraphouse podcast, etc… I am left confused.
What is this? Do I just not get it? What is the purpose of chapo? Why is the podcast entertaining to people?
Sorry if I sound like a dumbass but I genuinely want to know why people gather around the chapo name and listen to the chapo podcast.
“Big tent leftist community that doesn’t take itself too seriously”
I think r/alltheleft got started recently in the wake of Chapo getting b&, intended as a space for all leftist tendencies, but while it’s good to have it hasnt got the same size or energy that CTH did. But we’re here now!
/r/DankLeft is alright. The content is really low-quality but it’s been getting better as more professional chapotraphouse meme lords funnel in
I love that someone that has no idea what’s going on followed us here. That rules.
We’re leftists of various tendencies that started as fans of the podcast of the same name but grew to be our own community, fairly separate from the podcast
It’s being posted on other Lemmy instances, so I think that’s where they’re comming from
It’s a place where my first interaction was as a politics baby asking sincerely what the difference between a liberal and a leftist is. Amazingly, people actually took me seriously, upvoted my question, and provided well-thought-out answers that, at the time, I didn’t understand, but my curiosity about this political sect was piqued, so I subscribed. I didn’t understand anything that happened at first, but over time I became accustomed to how people interacted, started to learn the basis of what they believed — USA bad, question western narratives, liberals do not seek progressive change, helping poor people good — which as it turned out, I agreed with a lot. Now I’m a leftist of some sort. I’m not particularly a fan of either anarchy or authoritarian beliefs, so I just post about killing billionaires. :af-heart:
And yet… I still don’t know why it’s called Chapo Trap House. I think it’s a reference to a recurring joke that originated on the community’s official podcast, Cum Town.
Is it a running joke in this community to claim that the official podcast is not chapotraphouse? lmfao
No, cadence is just mistaken. Citations Needed is the community’s official podcast
Everyone hates the podcast it sucks ass and is not related to this community, which came before the podcast
My favorite thing about the sub was being able to search topics and find an array of differing leftists opinions. I’m not sure there’s any place I can go online and do that now. If their is please let me know.
It was a great pipeline to radicalize libs.
The show was good for a bit, but I was done after the “HR departments are shit” episode, during a nationwide protests. And then them constantly shitting on the sub bc some people hurt their feelings. And then them celebrating this biggest leftist online community being destroyed for hating slaves. So now I’m here and I hope we can grow this instance as well as other leftists instances in the fediverse.
I thought the hosts’ disdain for the sub was a bit but I guess they were serious about that. I dunno, when a bunch of well meaning dorks who like your show create a mostly good community around it, it’s very weird to constantly be like “you guys disgust me”
Imo it’s mainly Will, and I think it mostly was a bit until that idiotic drama about the mods refusing a request by Leslie Lee 3rd’s request to pin an episode of Struggle Session (podcast he co-hosts) and just kinda insulting him for no real reason.
i learned all my theory either from there or a source linked from there. its good folks
I mean I learned alot and its not like I don’t know anything. Watching debates between factions allowed me to get a good grasp on things in addition to discourse collective summarizing marx for me
There is an archive of the sub on the github. Don’t know if it’s searchable yet, but I’m sure somebody will figure it out soon.
This one. Seems like a work in progress. There is an archive category(?) on chapo discord. I’m sure they have more info.
I don’t know who those podcasters are but I wish they’d stop calling themselves chapos. We came up with the name first and this site predates the podcast by almost a decade.
